PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Unconscious Mind, Sleep Deprivation, Nicotine

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Indicates insecurities, instabilities, and anxieties: feeling overwhelmed and out of control, myoclonic jerks: occurs during the first stage of sleep; accompanied by spasms of arms, legs, and bodies, recurring dream. Important message that refuses to go away and forces the dreamer to confront something: could reveal valuable info. Lecture: a bedtime story, freight train traveling 35 miles around, all trains in the same direction, runaway train had two conductors asleep didn"t stop in time killed two men. Is there an excuse for falling asleep on the job: chernobyl, oil spill, air traffic control, biological clocks, plants keep identical rhythms in nature and in isolation, circadian once a day. In the hypothalamus: lays right above crossing, part of the brain monitoring the activations. Mythbusters recently tested whether or not a person is more impaired when driving tired than when driving a little tipsy.

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